Epstein Secrets

g undercover for the FBI at white supremacist meetings and conventions across the country. Kind of like in the movies, the former Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush operative put the wires on after he got mixed up in the wrong crowd (though he emphasizes that he never did anything illegal). Blodgett now gets ca

orld, the leaders who struggled to save it and the ordinary families who got crushed. September 2008 launched an extraordinary chain of events: • General Motors, the world's largest company, went bust. • Washington Mutual became the world's largest bank failure. • Lehman Brothers became the world's larges

to a full-fledged depression. The root of the problem can be traced back to the deregulation era that began during the Reagan administration. What George H.W. Bush once called "voodoo economics" fast became the biggest redistribution of wealth since the New Deal. The central article of faith in the "Reagan Revo

hat a President Romney would not have). The Economist magazine, which initially opposed that bailout, reversed itself because of the manner in which General Motors and Chrysler were made to cut costs and become competitive. And then there is America's energy revolution, which is also bringing back manufacturing

rone to repeating this line, that the Soviet Union lost, there is a widespread belief in Russia of the myth that Gorbachev was tricked by Reagan and Bush Sr. to give away the store and tha= ever since, the U.S. has been set on turning Russia into a colony fit only =or supplying cheap energy and raw materi

e a $40 billion valuation is significantly more than that of Tesla ($28), Fiat ($16), Mazda ($16) and Subaru ($12). It is just $14 billion les= than General Motors and two-thirds of the value of Ford ($64) which is havi=g its best year ever. And please explain how Uber is worth more than half of BMW ($73) and i

tand. Ailes, a veteran of the Nixon, Reagan, and Bush 41 White Houses, was growing worried by the presiden

ot from media or tech companies, with their liberal bent, but from old-line, when-America-was-great enterprises. They included Mary Barra, the CEO of General Motors; Ginni Rometty of IBM; Jack Welch, the former CEO of GE; Jim McNerney, the former CEO of Boeing; and Indra Nooyi of PepsiCo. If the new right had ele

ted into reports, which had a distinctive blue stripe to signify their importance, had been provided to the three American Presidents, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Even more shocking, in tracing the path of this disinformation, the Inspector General found that the "senior CIA officers responsib

o quality control. In the private sector, there is usually an unambiguous external measure of failure. For example, for an automobile company such as General Motors can measure the performance of its executive by reckoning it change in net income. With secret intelligence work, the metrics for failure are far les